DINNERS --- Northern Chinese chive pockets | Shanghai style wine and soy braised short ribs with star anise | sauteed roma beans | steamed xiao long bao | bitter melon and baby squid | silken tofu with thousand-year cured egg | mango and passion fruit cake
WInery wine tasting --- Boxwood WInery VA , wine, cheese and bread board
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new addition to garden
mostly for hummingbirds who visit daily
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a book about herbs
first edition published eighty years ago
